JONESBORO, Ark. – One person died from a shooting late Sunday night in Jonesboro.

The initial call came into police dispatch at 10:59 p.m., said Jonesboro Police Department’s information specialist, Paul Holmes. According to the incident report, two men showed up to a home at the 1300-block of Flint Street over what they said was an unpaid debt.

The resident, Ryan Wilson, 33, of Jonesboro, answered the door and reported two men, one with a gun and another with a rope, shoved their way into his home.

That’s when Wilson grabbed his AR-15.

Brandon Edwards, 30, of Jonesboro, was shot in the altercation. JPD officer Jacob Daffron responded to the scene, finding Edwards laying in the yard with gunshot wounds.

“He had a massive amount of blood that soaked his shirt and I could see a large amount of blood in the
passenger seat of the vehicle,” Daffron wrote in the report. “I asked Edwards where he had been shot and he advised in the chest. I noticed a hole in his shirt. I then cut away most of his shirt and noticed a large hole in the top right of his back and smaller holes around it. I held pressure on his wound and advised dispatch that I needed EMS to my location.”

Edwards taken to a nearby hospital, where he died hours later, Holmes tells NEA Report.

Campbell (Craighead County Sheriff’s Office)

James Bryan Campbell, 30, of Jonesboro, the suspected accomplice of Edwards, was arrested near the scene on a charge of aggravated residential burglary.

Meanwhile, Wilson has not been charged with a crime, Holmes said.

Stan Morris | NEA ReportAuthorities investigate a shooting early Monday at the 1300 block of Flint in Jonesboro